PHIL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Enthymeme, Iceberg, Dont
14 Jul 2020
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Premise indicators (because, since, for ) (a premis is a reason for a conclusion) Complex (always has at least more than one inference and will always have at least one intermediate conclusion series as a conclusion, then serves as a premise in a continuing chain of reason. Enthymemes: if an argument as an enthymeme it has an input conclusion or an input premise, questions, commands, explanations, exhortation, a statement is a clain that something is or is not the case, Don t confuse arguments with explainations an explanation tells us why something happened. The titanic sank because it hit an iceberg (this is a statement), historical fact, not trying to convince anyone of this. Capital punishment is inhumane because innocent people may be mistakenly executed (this is an argument), if we encounter an explanations within an argument, then we treat it as just making one claim.
